“You have to hold the truth that you will fail while believing in the seemingly contrary notion that you can achieve your dreams.”

Stephanie Beatriz found her light, Teddy Geiger found her angles and Brittani Nichols found… my heart.

The Quaker Aunts were the stuff of family legend, fearsome women in sensible shoes. Did one of them really smuggle Jewish children across the Alps before World War II?

Plus an important update on In the Dark!

Yara returns to the Iron Islands, Sara Lance and her biceps return to Star City, and The Chi returns to Showtime.

Crushes are wild and often irrational, but I’m a Capricorn so I’d like to make them slightly more logical. Here’s how you can do that, too.

Not only has Boomerang proven itself to be one of the most cutting edge black voices on television, it’s also invested in showcasing a full spectrum of young blackness, including sexuality.

GLAAD asks Newsweek for apology over Seetodeh’s gays-can’t-play-straight piece! Why do we still care? Because, believe it or not, this isn’t even the worst thing he’s written about gay people for Newsweek, just look at the victim-blaming hate-crime cover story! Anti-DADT empirical research is on YouTube and they’re dancing, Happiness without perfection, what your server is thinking about your date, and a Catholic university isn’t hiring a lesbian.

What if “Coming To America” starred Lena Waithe instead of Eddie Murphy? What if Sanaa Lathan and Gabrielle Union made out with each other at the end of “Love & Basketball”? What if black lesbians finally got to get the girl on the big screen? I’m buying the popcorn. You coming with?

You know, I pull my family from everywhere. Tell me who makes up the family in your life, be it bio or chosen or something else entirely.

“Maybe I could teach you how to do that and you could teach me a couple of things I’ve been wonderin’,” I told her. She shook my hand. It was a deal.

The couples (or maybe just VERY CLOSE FRIENDS) who set our hearts aflutter all year long.

Romantic comedies are the cure to my broken heart, and maybe yours! Get in here and talk about them with me!

Queering heteronormative tropes is certainly my favorite way to spend Thanksgiving.

“also can you truly — in your true heart — think of a better headline than “i put a sheet mask on my cunt””

“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”

It was one of pop music’s most iconic moments, but for budding gay girls like we were back then, it felt like that and somehow also so much more.

Gillian! Anderson! touches! Kate! McKinnon!

Plus updates on Critical Role, Strangers, and Ackley Bridge!

As an unsuspecting proto-queer I loved the X-Files something fierce. I watched it loyally through nine seasons of sci-fi glory, and I’ve been branded ever since.